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[Argon3]

Beta HAS started
Aug 7th will see more people in Beta

[Kai Valo]

Beta started a while back, but they'll be adding more people to it July 10th iirc, and Founders will get in on August 7th.

[Wolfy36]

Only been signed up since day one and still no beta invite

[Pvt Dancer]

10k in Beta now...

[Dae]

August 7th the servers go boom.

[phinja]

when the pants are dead.

[skamage]

phinja, on 27 June 2012 - 12:38 PM, said:

when the pants are dead.

Are we invited to the pants party?

[WardenWolf]

~10k people in the first closed beta phase, currently underway

New (production-level) server hardware arriving early July, so closed beta phase 2 begins around July 10th. Some of the folks in this phase will be drawn from the founders pack purchasers... but not necessarily all.

August 7th anyone who has purchased a founders pack gets to join the closed beta. There will be no more server wipes after this point, so founders will get their mechs and money that day.

At some point after that, but before the end of summer, it will go to open beta where anyone can play.

[madheuhl]

Trust me guys, you dont want to play the beta. It isnt finished yet, give them time and then play it when its ready to be played. Just go back to your World of tanks, or world of warcraft or whatever it is you kids do when you cant wait for a different game to come out. Distract yourselves.

[Vander StarStrife]

WardenWolf, on 27 June 2012 - 12:40 PM, said:

New (production-level) server hardware arriving early July, so closed beta phase 2 begins around July 10th. Some of the folks in this phase will be drawn from the founders pack purchasers... but not necessarily all.

I saw the line in the update saying that the July 10th phase 2 will be drawn from the founders pool, but i haven't seen anything saying they would draw new beta testers from outside this pool. Where did you see that?

[Legion]

Wolfy36, on 27 June 2012 - 12:37 PM, said:

Only been signed up since day one and still no beta invite

same here ....

i would go legendary as a side note but i wont till i get a beta key .... so its up to them if they want my other $60.

Edited by jeff1304, 27 June 2012 - 12:47 PM.

[Glythe]

madheuhl, on 27 June 2012 - 12:43 PM, said:

Trust me guys, you dont want to play the beta. It isnt finished yet, give them time and then play it when its ready to be played.

Lol whatever man I think just about anyone who has a founder tag wouldn't mind playing the beta. Most of us have played many betas and the odds are good that that we've all played a few stinkers.

If you love a game through and through you can play it in an unfinished form and still have a lot of fun.

Since this guy obviously doesn't want a beta invite... give me his if you were thinking about giving him one!

[BinaryDuck]

I am playing world of tanks while i can't play this one. =)

[madheuhl]

Glythe, on 27 June 2012 - 12:48 PM, said:

Lol whatever man I think just about anyone who has a founder tag wouldn't mind playing the beta. Most of us have played many betas and the odds are good that that we've all played a few stinkers.

If you love a game through and through you can play it in an unfinished form and still have a lot of fun.

Since this guy obviously doesn't want a beta invite... give me his if you were thinking about giving him one!

Well of course i would love to play it, but theres no reason to be impatient. They dont people who will just play the game either, they want people who will notice and find bugs and then fill out reports and send them in. Saying things like "omg i cant wait to play wheres my invite omgomgomgomgom mom make me another hotpocket" isnt gonna get you any closer to your fix bud.

[Lord Oonoopoo]

OMG I CANT WAIT

[FactorlanP]

Glythe, on 27 June 2012 - 12:48 PM, said:

Most of us have played many betas and the odds are good that that we've all played a few stinkers.

Amen... I played the last open beta weekend of The Secret World... I'll lump it into the stinker category. Pretty game, story and mission system seemed good. Absolutely hated the combat mechanics.

[Donovan Jenks]

madheuhl, on 27 June 2012 - 12:43 PM, said:

Trust me guys, you dont want to play the beta. It isnt finished yet, give them time and then play it when its ready to be played. Just go back to your World of tanks, or world of warcraft or whatever it is you kids do when you cant wait for a different game to come out. Distract yourselves.

I think that this should only apply to people who do not understand what "beta" means becasue anyone comparing a beta product to any of those production games you mentioned clearly does not. I would welcome the chance to offer feedback on this game and do whatever I could to help make it a better production experience than play any of those games :-)

[madheuhl]

Donovan Jenks, on 27 June 2012 - 12:59 PM, said:

I think that this should only apply to people who do not understand what "beta" means becasue anyone comparing a beta product to any of those production games you mentioned clearly does not. I would welcome the chance to offer feedback on this game and do whatever I could to help make it a better production experience than play any of those games :-)

You are one of the few who actually want to TEST the beta then and not play it.

[Donovan Jenks]

madheuhl, on 27 June 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

You are one of the few who actually want to TEST the beta then and not play it.

That is what beta means, testing, load-balancing, iteration, rendering, somehow this concept has be twisted in people's minds to mean that beta = early access to a completed game. Some companies have marketed it that way which has contributed to the confusion. In Developmental terms "Alpha" and "Beta" testing are phases of the development cycle when you start to introduce load to the hardware and prepare for the production environment. The benefit is you get to play a game before it is release and usually for free and in return you fill out quality assesments on the game or submit bug reports.